Hm, lack of players:
The best way to get more players is to ask your friends to play FS.
The community games are also a good way to give new players a possibility to play on a full server.
Promoting the community games is IMHO the best way to promote FS.

IMHO there are some things that keep the players away from FS:
- Problems with the Launcher
- Getting pwnd every round because of IMBA Teams on the server

It's sad that sometimes the gameplay during the community games is as worse as on a bad vanilla server.
Players don't go into squads, all regular players are in one team, pwning the over into oblivion.

IMHO some things can be done to make the gaming expirience better:

I remember the old Squadplay all the way server from the IPD Clan.
http://www.ipdclan.com/movies.html
It was on of the BF 2142 Vanilla servers with the best teamplay because ot the rules an the admins who enforce the rules:
Time before Roundstart was set to 2 Minutes, 30 secs to give the players time to organize into squads and vote for a commander.
Players who didn't join a squad were kicked from the server after the 3rd warning.
Such a warning is possible with a script (tactical gamer servers run this script):
http://www.tacticalgamer.com/wiki/index … dless_kick

Second many players don't have a clue what to do and what equiqment their class have.
Movies like the training movies for Forgotten Hope 2 may be helpfull.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cor8jTBA … re=related

Oh, and a own First Strike Channel on Youtube would be also helpfull

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Well, RSF are hardly new to First Strike so could have always offered some advice and prompted people to squad up. Perhaps even create a squad each so you can be sure of experienced squad leaders running the unknowns.

Doing this prevents people getting peeved by not knowing what they are doing or the map objectives. Getting slaughtered in every round is hardly much fun and is the quickest way to put new players off and prevent them from returning.

Those experienced enough SHOULD know better, when we have problems getting even one server populated each night. If there is a huge team imbalance then something should be said and experienced players try to spread themselves out to balance it up.

In a community night especially, clan stacking should be discouraged in order to make the night as much fun as possible for everyone of all skill levels. Save the stacked sides for clan battles please!

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I think it's my fault and I thought Omen was the head of PR.